After the people were gone: rewilding Kočevje in the wake of the expulsion of Slovenia’s Gottscheer Germans, 1941-present
Bibliographic record
Abstract
For 600 years Kočevje (Gottschee in German) was inhabited by ethnic Germans known as the Gottscheer Germans. Having opted for Hitler’s resettlement policy (Heim ins Reich – Home to the Reich) in 1941, almost the entire population resettled into German-occupied Slovenia before being expelled from Yugoslavia, along with all Germans, by the new Communist regime in 1945. Today Kočevje is best known for its ‘untouched, primaeval forests’ and as ‘Bear Forest’, with scant mention of its former German inhabitants. The paper traces how the Kočevje region ‘rewilded’ from a land with people in 1941 and with forest coverage consistent with other areas of Slovenia, to a sparsely inhabited land with over ninety per cent forest coverage today. Explanatory factors that are considered include war and ethnic cleansing, the Communist regime’s ideologically tainted disregard for Kočevje’s remaining German and sacral cultural presence, failed post-war socialist economic policies, and the ever more attractive tourist branding of Kočevje as a wilderness without people.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.004 | 0.005 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.004 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.004 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".